It works
tirelessly in the cells, fighting oxidative stress and detoxifying heavy metals.
Then it recycles itself to fight another day.

It can recycle
ALL antioxidants (including itself!), earning its name as the “Master” Antioxidant.

Many medical practitioners
and researchers in natural health believe that a deficiency in glutathione
indicates the level of health – for example, chronically sick patients have low
levels of glutathione; people with chronic respiratory system has low levels of
glutathione in their lungs. Low levels of gluthathione in one's body is an indicator of bad health and premature death.

Glutathione's Workings

It
is a powerful detoxicant – especially for toxic heavy metal. Hence, found in
abundance in the liver.

It
is involved in DNA synthesis (replication of DNA for cell
replication/splitting)

It
is involved with inflammatory response.

It’s a type of
Chain Breaking antioxidant (breaks the chain reactions of free radicals). In
fact, it is such a Master that the buck stops with it – it holds itself at the
end of the chain so that it neutralizes the last free radical in the chain and
then it recycles itself so that it can go on and find another chain to
neutralize.

Side Note: for information on “chain-breaking
antioxidant”, please refer to “Types of Antioxidants” page)

Where Is Glutathione Found Naturally?

Glutathione, as stated above, is
made by our body, from the 3 amino acids, plus some minerals and
vitamins.

Glutathione
supplements are not advisable as the body is not able to metabolize this
protein. As such, the best ways to increase the levels of glutathione are by :

1) taking foods rich in the by-products of
any of its 3 components of amino acids, in particular cysteine

o
must
be non-industrially produced (i.e. no growth hormones/pesticides/antibiotics)

Milk
thistle herb

Broccoli

Cauliflower

Cabbage

Asparagus

Spinach

Avocado

Squash

Melons

Grapefruit

Peaches

Health Benefits of Glutathione

Examples of the
health benefits of Glutathione:

Detoxifier
of Heavy Metals

> Detoxify heavy metals, especially from the liver.

> It attaches itself
to these toxic metals after the liver converts them to “flushable” substances, glutathione
attaches onto them to make them more water-soluble, which can then be removed by the kidney and
the colon.

Due to it attaching itself to the toxins and removed together with the toxins, in this process, glutathione levels will drop. Hence, even in younger individuals, the level of glutathione must be
replenished if there are toxic metals poisoning.

It aids
the immune system.

> It stimulates the growth of immune cells in older people or
chronically ill patients. It helps the
lymphocytes to deal with oxidative damages.

It
is a cancer fighter.

> It activates enzymes important for the protection of DNA, as well as
regulating the DNA replication to help prevent mutation that can lead to cancer
forming cells.

It is anti-aging.

Some Precautions

Too
much glutathione in around tumors areas, might cause the cancer cells to have a
high level of glutathione. This can counter
the effects of chemotherapy, thus making chemotheraphy less effective. This is
because of glutathione’s ability to detoxify (poisonous substance to the body).